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After watching too many Modern Era and/or Lazytown mod videos, I took flight of all rational sense, and thrust my hand into an actual Paradox Interactive title. Here are the various thoughts that went through my mind:
All these beginner's guides talk mostly about the interface, not how to actually play. This does not bode well.
So I have no clue what I'm doing. Imma play France. There's no way this can possibly backfire, riiiiiight..?
I'm spending most of my time clicking boxes on screens and/or a strategic map. Why the hell does it need so much graphics power?
Actually, I think I grasp this interface better than Supreme Ruler: Cold War. And that was supposed to be the noob-friendly game.
Well, trade was easy.
Tojo didn't become prime minister until '41, I don't know why these games always default to him.
Confound this Democracy! I wanna support Ethiopia!
A month and a half to build one factory. I'll never be ready for Adolf.
This music reminds me of Axis & Allies. I could probably mod it in...
Oh right, France has a bunch of colonial troops, doesn't it?
brb, boosting democracy in Italy.
Goddammit it's already February. I need more factories to beat Adolf!
According to these production figures, all infantry regiments will be fully supplied by 1941...
Apparently French factory strikes have been a meme since 1936.
Confound this Democracy! I wanna support Republican Spain!
Goddammit it's already April. I need more factories to beat Adolf!
Civil-war Republicans are Communist. Looks like I wasted a ton of political points propping up the Democrats...
Ohey, that stability-boost line isn't exclusive to siding with Britain. TIME TO ENTENTE UP IN THIS HOUSE
I'm spending a lot of time fast-forwarding through the months. This probably means I'm not doing something I should be.
tfw de Gaulle can be a general and a government minister at the same time
How the hell am I gonna round out all these tech trees before '39?
People that whinge about appeasement never had to deal with logsitics. They also weren't playing Democracies.
Should I even bother with Indochina? Two divisions won't exactly inspire fear in the Imperial Japanese Army...
Goddammit it's already September. I need more factories to beat Adolf!
So it's 1936 and I'm allied with the Czechs. There's no way this can possibly backfire, riiiiiight..?
then you realize you can't build these heavy tanks because you need more experience points
First year's not even done and I have a sneaking suspicion I've already buggered the long game.
It's gonna be a fun ride...
All these beginner's guides talk mostly about the interface, not how to actually play. This does not bode well. So I have no clue what I'm doing. Imma play France. There's no way this can possibly backfire, riiiiiight..? I'm spending most of my time clicking boxes on screens and/or a strategic map. Why the hell does it need so much graphics power? Actually, I think I grasp this interface better than Supreme Ruler: Cold War. And that was supposed to be the noob-friendly game. Well, trade was easy. Tojo didn't become prime minister until '41, I don't know why these games always default to him. Confound this Democracy! I wanna support Ethiopia! A month and a half to build one factory. I'll never be ready for Adolf. This music reminds me of Axis & Allies. I could probably mod it in... Oh right, France has a bunch of colonial troops, doesn't it? brb, boosting democracy in Italy. Goddammit it's already February. I need more factories to beat Adolf! According to these production figures, all infantry regiments will be fully supplied by 1941... Apparently French factory strikes have been a meme since 1936. Confound this Democracy! I wanna support Republican Spain! Goddammit it's already April. I need more factories to beat Adolf! Civil-war Republicans are Communist. Looks like I wasted a ton of political points propping up the Democrats... Ohey, that stability-boost line isn't exclusive to siding with Britain. TIME TO ENTENTE UP IN THIS HOUSE I'm spending a lot of time fast-forwarding through the months. This probably means I'm not doing something I should be. tfw de Gaulle can be a general and a government minister at the same time How the hell am I gonna round out all these tech trees before '39? People that whinge about appeasement never had to deal with logsitics. They also weren't playing Democracies. Should I even bother with Indochina? Two divisions won't exactly inspire fear in the Imperial Japanese Army... Goddammit it's already September. I need more factories to beat Adolf! So it's 1936 and I'm allied with the Czechs. There's no way this can possibly backfire, riiiiiight..? then you realize you can't build these heavy tanks because you need more experience points First year's not even done and I have a sneaking suspicion I've already buggered the long game.It's gonna be a fun ride...
Sarcasmitron on Ukraine
As we conclude Day 731 of Pukin's three-day special military operation, it's a good time to pause and reflect how we got here. The war on Ukraine has been co-opted by ideologues from both left and right wings to "prove" their worldview, but shockingly few people understand what really precipitated Euromaidan, and the Kremlin's subsequent retaliation, even within Ukraine itself—and that's because virtually none of the pundits have bothered to actually examine Ukraine's internal politics. Early last year, I stumbled on Part 3 of a documentary series by Sarcasmitron, lauded by Ukrainians and Russians alike as the most in-depth and accurate English-language analysis of the crisis. Combining archival footage with a contemporary soundtrack to map out the links between seemingly-disparate elements, it bears strong stylistic parallels with the work of Adam Curtis, making it all the more astounding this was assembled by a YouTube Essayist™ working out of his proverbial basement. Over the
And the Library keeps burning...
Eclipse has finally caught up with Groups, one of the last redoubts of the old interface. People will argue back and forth about the UI, about how Watchers and Members are being folded in together apparently without any regard to how user permissions are configured, but I want to highlight one line specifically: The majority of admin features for groups will remain the same. Notes and logs have received a visual uplift to match the rest of the site; however, admin forums and announcements have been phased out due to very low usage. Now, it's no surprise volumetrics are leading dAdministration by the nose: see the capitulation to AI as its primary client for Premium Galleries. But not unlike the erasure of gallery comments (without warning), removing internal forums and announcements will destroy information, specifically existing records of groups' administrative policy, and presumably shunt discussions to cumbersome Note chains or, God forbid, the chat. People know I take
The MGE Conversion Project
As mentioned in the April update, a long-term project of mine is to update the original index of scenarios that shipped with Civilization II: Multiplayer Gold Edition for compatibility with Test of Time. To help track progress, and crowdsource input on updated graphics and potential rebalances, I've created an official coordination thread on CivFanatics. I haven't decided whether I'll post the demos piecemeal on Patreon or wait to finish the consolidated pack, so bookmark the thread if you want sneak peeks.
Lackadaisy Pilot! Also, Imgur pulls an ImageShack
Do you like cats? Do you like historical comics? Do you like Prohibition-era St. Louis gangsters? Have I got a show for you..! @tracyjb et al. will be premiering the first episode of Lackadaisy's animated adaptation... *checks notes* ...last March. [link] In other news, Imgur will be updating its terms of service May 15. The tl;dr is that existing archives are slated for pruning based on nebulously-defined criteria of "old, unused, and inactive content", alongside anonymous uploads and sexual content. RIP the Last Good Free Host, and back up your files.
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After watching too many Modern Era...
I guess it's a bad time to recommend the Millennium Dawn mod for this game. But at least there's the Great War mod (World War I in HOI4
) and the Kaiserreich mod (if Germany won WWI scenario).Well, trade was easy.
So long as you have enough civil factories that they don't tie up your other construction infrastructure. Though it's not an issue for me since I pop to the trade menu if I'm running short on a resource and order more. No different than what I do at work when I have to put in a transfer request for an item we don't have
.Confound this Democracy! I wanna support Republican Spain!
Story holds true if you're playing as the US. But at least with Japan, I can send samurai to support Nationalist Spain
.Civil-war Republicans are Communist. Looks like I wasted a ton of political points propping up the Democrats...
That moment when you realized you fell asleep in class when they were talking about the interbellum years between the world wars (or the class never touched upon the Spanish Civil War),